[SystemSafety] Wheel detachment from a moving car

[Bernd Sieker]

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On 22.05.2015 07:18, David Haworth wrote:
> My tyre dealer recommends checking the wheel nuts after about 50km.
> They put a little sticker on the steering wheel as a reminder. I
> think it might be common practice in Germany.

It hasn't been sinve I've had a car, so for at least 26 years. I think
it used to be, or at least so my father tells me.

Our shop usually tightens them while still suspended with a pneumatic
impact wrench (the large mass of the wheel allows the wrench torque to
be countered with the other hand easily) and then hand-torques them
with a calibrated torque wrench on the ground.

No further inspection necessary or recommended.


Bernd

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